The UN released a threatening report on global warming. What does it mean for the investor The main event of the week was the report of the UN climate group (IPCC) with disappointing conclusions: climate change is accelerating, the goals of the Paris Agreement are almost failing, and the current decade is the last chance to change the catastrophic course of events.

After the death of the founder of Natura Siberica Andrei Trubnikov, the company erupted a corporate conflict, which takes more and more confusing forms every month. At the end of May, it became known that the relatives of Trubnikov - children from the first and second marriage and the third wife - are suing each other and the company for the share in business.

Anastasia Tatulova, the owner of the AnderSon cafe chain, decided to register her name as a trademark in order to officially fight fraudsters. “In the network, people on my behalf post courses, advertisements, try to sell something. I have already encountered several unpleasant cases when they sent me screenshots with something similar, and I had to explain to people that it was not me, ”said Tatulova.

After four quarters of falling, Russia's GDP in the second quarter of 2021 jumped by 10.3% in annual terms, follows from a preliminary estimate of Rosstat. However, there is no need to talk about a new wave of economic growth. The dynamics of GDP in the second quarter was determined by the effect of the low base of last year: in April-June 2020, GDP collapsed by almost 8%. If you remove the base effect, normalized growth was about 3%, says Natalia Orlova, chief economist at Alfa Bank.

Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson has sold a $300 million stake in his space company, the billionaire's first deal since his successful space flight. Branson sold about 10.5 million shares of Virgin Galactic, or about 4% of the company, according to Bloomberg.

BBC journalist Sarah Rainsford is due to leave Russia by the end of August in a "retaliatory measure" against discrimination against Russian media in the UK and visa denials for country reporters, writes Bloomberg. A spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Rainsford's visa expires on August 31. According to Bloomberg, on the evening of August 12, the state television channel Rossiya 24, citing sources, reported that the journalist's visa had not been extended.

The outgoing Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, will arrive in Moscow on August 20. The forthcoming visit was first reported by German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, noting that Merkel's meeting with President Putin "is obviously expected." Merkel will arrive in Moscow ahead of a scheduled August 22 meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, as well as on the anniversary of the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The Kremlin confirmed the meeting.

On the evening of August 12, in the center of Voronezh, near the Chizhov Gallery shopping center, a bus exploded. It carried 35 passengers. According to reports , up to 20 people were injured, two of the victims died in intensive care. The cause of the explosion has not yet been precisely clarified, but according to incoming information, there is no talk of an explosive device.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) announced the start of unscheduled on-site inspections of the largest retail chains "in connection with citizens' appeals containing information about rising prices." Among the chains that have been checked “for anti-competitive collusion, the consequences of which may be growth and maintenance of prices” are X5 Group stores (“Pyaterochka”, “Perekrestok”, “Karusel”), Lenta LLC and Tander JSC (trading network "Magnit").

The Prosecutor General's Office declared another international non-governmental organization, the International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR), headquartered in Brussels, undesirable in Russia. The activities of the IPHR pose a threat to the foundations of the constitutional order and security, the department noted.

Lithuania will stop the transit of potash fertilizers from Belarus from December after the US sanctions, as the Lithuanian business does not want to risk secondary sanctions. Domestic carriers do not want to deal with sanctioned cargo either, writes Kommersant . At the same time, there are problems with transfers from the country to abroad - it is possible that because of SWIFT.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin canceled the mandatory transfer of 30% of employees to remote work - the measure was in effect for the second time since the end of June. Sobyanin's decree states that from today "the mandatory requirement to transfer at least 30% of employees of enterprises and organizations to remote work is cancelled." Remote work becomes optional for workers over 65 years of age and citizens suffering from chronic diseases.

China's "zero tolerance" policy for coronavirus has begun to affect global logistics The main driver of a new break in supply chains and rising prices is not the virus itself, but the methods of dealing with it in China. The country's largest container port, the giant Ningbo-Zhoushan complex, has been partially closed after the only dockworker living in the hostel tested positive for the coronavirus, writes .

The spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus is already beginning to affect global logistics, with the main factor in the new supply chain disruption and rising prices becoming not the virus itself, but China's methods of dealing with it. What happened China's largest container port, the giant Ningbo-Zhoushan complex, has been partially shut down after the only dockworker in the hostel tested positive for the coronavirus, writes .